WigwamTrail
New Member
Hey y'all
My grandpa and I are getting into model rocketry as a summer project, and he had an idea that's been stumping both of us.
The idea is what if you could use a spring to give a model rocket (Estes Mongoose to be exact) a "boost" before igniting the motor, his logic is that since you use the most fuel to go the least distance at launch, giving a small boost at that stage would improve the efficiency or performance a sizeable bit.
So I wanted to ask if anyone had experience with something like this, or had input of how we could pull this off. I've attached some sketches of initial ideas we had, top one having the spring compressed by a string which is then burned by motor exhaust, releasing the spring. Bottom one having the spring on the guide rail compressed by a servo, which moves to release the spring, pushing against the rockets launch lug.
Thanks everyone
My grandpa and I are getting into model rocketry as a summer project, and he had an idea that's been stumping both of us.
The idea is what if you could use a spring to give a model rocket (Estes Mongoose to be exact) a "boost" before igniting the motor, his logic is that since you use the most fuel to go the least distance at launch, giving a small boost at that stage would improve the efficiency or performance a sizeable bit.
So I wanted to ask if anyone had experience with something like this, or had input of how we could pull this off. I've attached some sketches of initial ideas we had, top one having the spring compressed by a string which is then burned by motor exhaust, releasing the spring. Bottom one having the spring on the guide rail compressed by a servo, which moves to release the spring, pushing against the rockets launch lug.
Thanks everyone